Classification Using NNS Clustering Analysis

22 Pages Posted: 6 Nov 2016 Last revised: 21 Oct 2019

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Fred Viole

OVVO Financial Systems; Fordham University

Date Written: August 4, 2019

Abstract

NNS stands for Nonlinear Nonparametric Statistics, henceforth "NNS". What is NNS clustering analysis? NNS clustering is a method of partitioning the joint distribution into partial moment quadrants (clustering), and assigning identifiers to observations (classification). NNS clustering is very similar to k-means clustering, and we direct the reader to Vinod and Viole [2016] for a proof and comparison between the methods. This article is intended to present working examples of several classification problems using NNS clustering analysis.

We demonstrate how NNS clustering is quite effective, as well as an alternative method NNS employs for classification tasks. We compare predictions of test sets with NNS, k-means using the "cl.predict" routine offered in R to "predict class ids or memberships from R objects representing partitions", K nearest neighbors classification using the "knn" routine in R-package "class", and a naive Bayes classification using the "e1071" package.

The methods and results presented immediately raise suspicions on the pervasive notion of dimension reduction given the consistent performance of the NNS Multivariate Regression.

Keywords: clustering, classification, text classification, k-means, knn, naive Bayes, partial moments

JEL Classification: C3, C38

Suggested Citation

Viole, Fred, Classification Using NNS Clustering Analysis (August 4, 2019). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2864711 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2864711

Fred Viole (Contact Author)

OVVO Financial Systems ( email )

NJ
United States

Fordham University ( email )

Bronx, NY 10458
United States

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